Corey Ells

Corey Ells (1979-) was an actor and political activist from Compton, California. In 2013, he chaired Jock Cranley's minority outreach committee during his gubernatorial campaign.

Biography
Corey Ells was born in Compton, California in 1979 to a working-class African-American family, and he became an actor as a young man. Ells became middle-class and moved out of the ghetto, and he appeared in Richards Majestic films shot at their Culver City studio during the 2010s. Ells was critical of the "99%", saying that they should "get up off of their asses", and he became a Republican activist. He had the rare distinction of being an African-American and Hollywood actor who was openly Republican, and, in 2013, Republican gubernatorial candidate Jock Cranley named him the head of his minority outreach committee during his unsuccessful campaign.